RE: Remarks about XML:DB API

2002-02-08 Thread Arno de Quaasteniet
But I do see it as a problem, which was the point I was trying to make with my Oracle example. Ok. Sorry, for the misconception. You and Dare are correct that Services tied exclusively to collections are not intuitive and inadequate. Understand though that until I implemented the

Re: Remarks about XML:DB API

2002-02-08 Thread Kimbro Staken
On Friday, February 8, 2002, at 04:07 AM, Arno de Quaasteniet wrote: I can imagine that you didn't see it before. I probably also wouldn't have since X-Hive also has root collection :) Anyway, if there is a problem then it has to be solved. I need to think some more about you suggestions of

Re: Remarks about XML:DB API

2002-02-08 Thread Lars Martin
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 04:40:57 -0700 Kimbro Staken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's widely used though, simply because dbXML, eXist and now Xindice use it. It may not be used in any big installations, but it is definitely used in a whole bunch of little ones. I don't necessarily agree that it's

Re: Remarks about XML:DB API

2002-02-07 Thread Kimbro Staken
On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 02:01 PM, Tom Bradford wrote: Yes... and it shouldn't cause confusion because Services as they're implemented at the moment can't be repointed to other Collections. To a Service, the Collection provides context. It may be a starting context for recursive

Re: Remarks about XML:DB API

2002-02-07 Thread Dare Obasanjo
--- Tom Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 02:09 PM, Kimbro Staken wrote: The problem comes if there is no root collection. For instance I have an Oracle 9i impl where the collection hierarchy is flat. I had to synthesize a root collection in order to

Re: Remarks about XML:DB API

2002-02-07 Thread Tom Bradford
On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 02:30 PM, Dare Obasanjo wrote: This can easily be supported by doing what I did with SiXDML. Just add getService(String, String) to the Database class. Here's the problem with that though. Imagine you have a program that performs service requests in a generic

Re: Remarks about XML:DB API

2002-02-07 Thread Kimbro Staken
On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 02:40 PM, Tom Bradford wrote: On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 02:30 PM, Dare Obasanjo wrote: This can easily be supported by doing what I did with SiXDML. Just add getService(String, String) to the Database class. Here's the problem with that though. Imagine